Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
New Online Crystal Healing training course is available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.
Crystal Healing
Zoisite – Powerful healer, detoxifier, stimulates healing, enhances creativity, individuality, helps fertility, helps recovery after illness.
Herbalism
Star Anise (http://www.herbmoonhollow.com/)
Latin Name -Illicium Verum
Health benefits: Used as an antidepressant, aids digestion; drink tea for memory. Magically used to protect and for safety during travel.
Comfrey Root (Symphytum officinale) (http://www.herbmoonhollow.com/)
Actions: Vulnerary, demulcent, astringent, expectortant
Recipe: Comfrey Baby Oil: 4 oz Sweet Almond Oil, 2 Tbs comfrey 1 drop lavender oil. Pour oil over the comfrey. Leave in a dark warm place for 2 days, strain and add lavender oil. Shake well . Can be used as a moisturizer.
Dosage: Put 1-3 tsp of dried herb in a cup of water, brings to boil, simmer 10- 15 minutes, drink x 3 a day (especially for gastric and duodenal ulcers, soothes bronchitis, irritating cough, internal bleeding. For external applications, can be used in ointment, poultice or compress. Caution: don’t use for deep wounds, will cause wounds to heal up too quickly causing a risk of abscess.
Yoga
Purity – Sattva
Sattvic Foods – “The foods which increase life, purity, strength, health, joy, and cheerfulness, which are savory and oleaginous, substantial and agreeable, are dear to sattvic people.” Bhagavad Gita 17-8
Foods that are pure, wholesome, naturally delicious, without preservatives or artificial flavourings. Include fresh and dried fruits and berries, pure fruit juices, raw or lightly cooked vegetables, salads, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, whole meal breads, honey, fresh herbs, herbal teas, dairy products such as milk and butter. This diet will help eliminate fatigue. Yogis believe that people’s food preference reflect their level of mental purity, and will alter as they develop spiritually.
Poetry
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe (About.com Guide)
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
The triolet is a very brief, tightly rhymed poem takes part of its structure from the repetition of entire lines. A triolet is eight lines, as follows:
1st line A
2nd line B
3rd line a (rhymes with A)
4th line A (entire 1st line repeated)
5th line a (rhymes with A)
6th line b (rhymes with B)
7th line A (entire 1st line repeated)
8th line B (entire 2nd line repeated)
Each line is usually iambic tetrameter, but modern poets have varied the line length and often make subtle changes in the repeated lines, whose meanings evolve as a reader moves through the poem.
Triolets were originally written in the French of the Middle Ages. The first triolets in English were prayers written by Patrick Carey, a Benedictine monk of the 17th century. Robert Bridges, an English poet and critic who later was named Poet Laureate and saw to the publication of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems, reintroduced the triolet into English at the end of the 19th century. Since its brief vogue back then, only a few poets have written triolets—most contemporary poets shy away from its extreme repetition and limited rhymes.
Example of triolet
How Great My Grief
Thomas Hardy (1901)
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee!—
Have the slow years not brought to view
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Nor memory shaped old times anew,
Nor loving-kindness helped to show thee
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee?
Music
Medieval music resources
http://www.medieval.org/
http://www.stanford.edu/~jrdx/medieval.html
Medieval composers
Hildegard von Bingen
http://www.hildegard.org/music/music.html
For more information on Crystal Healing or Herbalism, see http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ Theatre, Music, Yoga, Poetry, http://www.caraemoore.co.uk/
Sunday 24 January 2010
Sunday 10 January 2010
Crystal Arts & Health Blog
Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
New Online Crystal Healing training course is available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals.I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.
Crystal Healing
Moldavite – Amplifies properties of other stones, strengthen immune system, encourages innovation, true potential, transforming. Blends earthly and cosmic energies.
HerbalismNutmeg – (Myristica Fragrans) (herbmoonhollow.com)
Soothes stomach pains, improves appetite & digestion. A small amount of nutmeg, about the size of a pea, can be taken once daily over a long period (6 months to a year) to relieve chronic nervous problems, as well as heart problems stemming from poor circulation.
Added to milk, and baked fruits and desserts, it aids in digestion, and relieves nausea. Large doses can be poisonous, and may cause miscarriage for pregnant women
Yerba Mate (Also known as Mate, Paraguay Tea, Jesuit's tea, Yerba)
Health properties: stimulates the nervous system, treats headaches, migraines, fatigue & mild depression, boosts the immune system.
Compress for Aching Joints and bones
Meadowsweet, Yerba Mate and Wormwood herb
Pour 1 cup boiling water over 1/4 oz each herb. When cool enough to use, make a compress (soak a natural fiber cloth in the fluid) and apply to the aching part.
Yoga
Relaxation poses:
Corpse pose (Sarvasana)
Lie flat on back, legs 2 ft apart, place arms at angle of about 45 degrees to the body, focus the mind on the breath, feel the abdomen rise as you inhale and sink as you exhale.
Child Pose
Sit on the heels with knees and feet together, forehead on ground, rest the hands on the ground, palms up, by the feet. Breathe gently through the nose, sink down into the position.
Poetry
Quotations on love
Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Les Miserables
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Acquainted With the Night
Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Music
Biography of Billie Holiday
http://jazz.about.com/od/classicjazzartists/p/BillieHoliday.htm
Biography Ella Fitzgerald
http://jazz.about.com/od/classicjazzartists/p/EllaFitzgerald.htm
Jazz resource
http://jazz.about.com/new.htm
For more information on Crystal Healing or Herbalism, see http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ Theatre, Music, Yoga, Poetry, www.caraemoore.co.uk
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
New Online Crystal Healing training course is available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals.I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.
Crystal Healing
Moldavite – Amplifies properties of other stones, strengthen immune system, encourages innovation, true potential, transforming. Blends earthly and cosmic energies.
HerbalismNutmeg – (Myristica Fragrans) (herbmoonhollow.com)
Soothes stomach pains, improves appetite & digestion. A small amount of nutmeg, about the size of a pea, can be taken once daily over a long period (6 months to a year) to relieve chronic nervous problems, as well as heart problems stemming from poor circulation.
Added to milk, and baked fruits and desserts, it aids in digestion, and relieves nausea. Large doses can be poisonous, and may cause miscarriage for pregnant women
Yerba Mate (Also known as Mate, Paraguay Tea, Jesuit's tea, Yerba)
Health properties: stimulates the nervous system, treats headaches, migraines, fatigue & mild depression, boosts the immune system.
Compress for Aching Joints and bones
Meadowsweet, Yerba Mate and Wormwood herb
Pour 1 cup boiling water over 1/4 oz each herb. When cool enough to use, make a compress (soak a natural fiber cloth in the fluid) and apply to the aching part.
Yoga
Relaxation poses:
Corpse pose (Sarvasana)
Lie flat on back, legs 2 ft apart, place arms at angle of about 45 degrees to the body, focus the mind on the breath, feel the abdomen rise as you inhale and sink as you exhale.
Child Pose
Sit on the heels with knees and feet together, forehead on ground, rest the hands on the ground, palms up, by the feet. Breathe gently through the nose, sink down into the position.
Poetry
Quotations on love
Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Les Miserables
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Acquainted With the Night
Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Music
Biography of Billie Holiday
http://jazz.about.com/od/classicjazzartists/p/BillieHoliday.htm
Biography Ella Fitzgerald
http://jazz.about.com/od/classicjazzartists/p/EllaFitzgerald.htm
Jazz resource
http://jazz.about.com/new.htm
For more information on Crystal Healing or Herbalism, see http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ Theatre, Music, Yoga, Poetry, www.caraemoore.co.uk
Sunday 3 January 2010
Crystal Arts & Health Blog
Crystal Arts & Health Blog
Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
New Online Crystal Healing training course is available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals.
I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.
Crystal Healing
Sunstone – Uplifting. Happiness stone, self-expression, artistic, warming, energizing, energy of sun, useful in meditation.
Herbalism
Emollient – remedies that soften, soothe and protect skin.
Plantain Greater (Plantago major) Parts used: leaves or aerial parts.
Actions: Expectorant, demulcent, astringent, diuretic
Ideal for coughs, mild bronchitis, (gentle expectorant, soothes sore membranes) aids in diarrhea, hemorrhoids, (ointment can be made for treatment of hemorrhoids and cuts) cystitis with bleeding.
Flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum)
Part used: ripe seeds
Actions: demulcent, anti-tussive, laxative, emollient
Useful for chest infections, especially with catarrh, (combines well with mustard) poultice in pleurisy, boils, carbuncles, shingles, psoriasis (combines well with marshmallow root and slippery elm)
To make a poultice (plant material is used for a poultice, a compress uses gauze soaked in a hot infusion) with dried herbs, mix with hot water or apple cider vinegar to make into paste, put a covering of olive oil onto skin if applying directly to skin or put mixture into a piece of muslin, a hot water bottle can be placed on poultice to keep it warm.
As a purgative it relieves constipation.
Yoga
Relaxation Techniques
Relaxing in silence – it will soothe nerves and relieve stresses of daily life and recharge the senses.
Quiet Time
For mental and physical well being it is important to set aside time each day when you are able to sit peacefully by yourself, read, listen to inspirational music, use the mind in a focused, but relaxing activity.
Poetry
Old and New Year Ditties
Christina Rossetti (1862)
1
New Year met me somewhat sad:
Old Year leaves me tired,
Stripped of favourite things I had
Baulked of much desired:
Yet farther on my road to-dayGod willing,
farther on my way.
New Year coming on apace
What have you to give me?
Bring you scathe, or bring you grace,
Face me with an honest face;
You shall not deceive me:
Be it good or ill, be it what you will,
It needs shall help me on my road,
My rugged way to heaven, please God.
2
Watch with me, men, women, and children dear,
You whom I love, for whom I hope and fear,
Watch with me this last vigil of the year.
Some hug their business, some their pleasure-scheme;
Some seize the vacant hour to sleep or dream;
Heart locked in heart some kneel and watch apart.
Watch with me blessèd spirits, who delight
All through the holy night to walk in white,
Or take your ease after the long-drawn fight.
I know not if they watch with me: I know
They count this eve of resurrection slow,
And cry, “How long?” with urgent utterance strong.
Watch with me Jesus, in my loneliness:
Though others say me nay, yet say Thou yes;
Though others pass me by, stop Thou to bless.Yea,
Thou dost stop with me this vigil night;
To-night of pain, to-morrow of delight:
I, Love, am Thine; Thou, Lord my God, art mine.
3
Passing away, saith the World, passing away:
Chances, beauty and youth sapped day by day:
Thy life never continueth in one stay.
Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair changing to grey
That hath won neither laurel nor bay?
I shall clothe myself in Spring and bud in May:
Thou, root-stricken, shalt not rebuild thy decay
On my bosom for aye.Then I answered: Yea.
Passing away, saith my Soul, passing away:
With its burden of fear and hope, of labour and play;
Hearken what the past doth witness and say:
Rust in thy gold, a moth is in thine array,
A canker is in thy bud, thy leaf must decay.
At midnight, at cockcrow, at morning, one certain day
Lo, the Bridegroom shall come and shall not delay:
Watch thou and pray.Then I answered: Yea.
Passing away, saith my God, passing away:
Winter passeth after the long delay:
New grapes on the vine, new figs on the tender spray,
Turtle calleth turtle in Heaven’s May.
Though I tarry wait for Me, trust Me, watch and pray:
Arise, come away, night is past and lo it is day,
My love, My sister, My spouse, thou shalt hear Me say.
Then I answered: Yea.
About.com:Quotations has a service to send a daily poem by email called “Classic Poem Daily”
http://quotations.about.com
Music
Folk Music (taken from article from about.com:folkmusic)
“Scarborough Fair" (purchase/download), popularized in America by Simon and Garfunkel, is an English folk song about a trade fair that took place in the resort town of Scarborough during the medieval times. The fair peaked in the late 14th century, but continued to operate until the end of the 1700s.
"Scarborough Fair" Lyrics
The lyrics for "Scarborough Fair" talk about unrequited love. A young man requests impossible tasks from his lover, saying that if she can perform them, he will take her back. In return, she requests impossible things of him, saying she will perform her tasks when he performs his.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
The use of the herbs "parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme," has been debated and discussed. Herbalists will tell you of the many symbolisms and functions of herbs in healing and health maintenance. There's also a possibility that these meanings were intended as the song evolved (parsley to remove bitterness, sage to cleanse, thyme for courage, rosemary for love). There's some speculation that these four herbs were used in a tonic of some sort, to remove curses.
Simon and Garfunkel's Version
“Paul Simon learned the song in 1965 while visiting Martin Carthy in London. Art Garfunkel adapted the arrangement, integrating elements of another song Paul Simon had written called "The Side of a Hill," and the pair added some anti-war lyrics. They recorded the song and didn't give credit to the traditional arrangement and lyrics.”
Useful resource for songwriting
http://musiced.about.com/od/songwriting101/Songwriting_101.htm
For more information on Crystal Healing or Herbalism, see http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ Theatre, Music, Yoga, Poetry, www.caraemoore.co.uk
Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
New Online Crystal Healing training course is available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals.
I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.
Crystal Healing
Sunstone – Uplifting. Happiness stone, self-expression, artistic, warming, energizing, energy of sun, useful in meditation.
Herbalism
Emollient – remedies that soften, soothe and protect skin.
Plantain Greater (Plantago major) Parts used: leaves or aerial parts.
Actions: Expectorant, demulcent, astringent, diuretic
Ideal for coughs, mild bronchitis, (gentle expectorant, soothes sore membranes) aids in diarrhea, hemorrhoids, (ointment can be made for treatment of hemorrhoids and cuts) cystitis with bleeding.
Flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum)
Part used: ripe seeds
Actions: demulcent, anti-tussive, laxative, emollient
Useful for chest infections, especially with catarrh, (combines well with mustard) poultice in pleurisy, boils, carbuncles, shingles, psoriasis (combines well with marshmallow root and slippery elm)
To make a poultice (plant material is used for a poultice, a compress uses gauze soaked in a hot infusion) with dried herbs, mix with hot water or apple cider vinegar to make into paste, put a covering of olive oil onto skin if applying directly to skin or put mixture into a piece of muslin, a hot water bottle can be placed on poultice to keep it warm.
As a purgative it relieves constipation.
Yoga
Relaxation Techniques
Relaxing in silence – it will soothe nerves and relieve stresses of daily life and recharge the senses.
Quiet Time
For mental and physical well being it is important to set aside time each day when you are able to sit peacefully by yourself, read, listen to inspirational music, use the mind in a focused, but relaxing activity.
Poetry
Old and New Year Ditties
Christina Rossetti (1862)
1
New Year met me somewhat sad:
Old Year leaves me tired,
Stripped of favourite things I had
Baulked of much desired:
Yet farther on my road to-dayGod willing,
farther on my way.
New Year coming on apace
What have you to give me?
Bring you scathe, or bring you grace,
Face me with an honest face;
You shall not deceive me:
Be it good or ill, be it what you will,
It needs shall help me on my road,
My rugged way to heaven, please God.
2
Watch with me, men, women, and children dear,
You whom I love, for whom I hope and fear,
Watch with me this last vigil of the year.
Some hug their business, some their pleasure-scheme;
Some seize the vacant hour to sleep or dream;
Heart locked in heart some kneel and watch apart.
Watch with me blessèd spirits, who delight
All through the holy night to walk in white,
Or take your ease after the long-drawn fight.
I know not if they watch with me: I know
They count this eve of resurrection slow,
And cry, “How long?” with urgent utterance strong.
Watch with me Jesus, in my loneliness:
Though others say me nay, yet say Thou yes;
Though others pass me by, stop Thou to bless.Yea,
Thou dost stop with me this vigil night;
To-night of pain, to-morrow of delight:
I, Love, am Thine; Thou, Lord my God, art mine.
3
Passing away, saith the World, passing away:
Chances, beauty and youth sapped day by day:
Thy life never continueth in one stay.
Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair changing to grey
That hath won neither laurel nor bay?
I shall clothe myself in Spring and bud in May:
Thou, root-stricken, shalt not rebuild thy decay
On my bosom for aye.Then I answered: Yea.
Passing away, saith my Soul, passing away:
With its burden of fear and hope, of labour and play;
Hearken what the past doth witness and say:
Rust in thy gold, a moth is in thine array,
A canker is in thy bud, thy leaf must decay.
At midnight, at cockcrow, at morning, one certain day
Lo, the Bridegroom shall come and shall not delay:
Watch thou and pray.Then I answered: Yea.
Passing away, saith my God, passing away:
Winter passeth after the long delay:
New grapes on the vine, new figs on the tender spray,
Turtle calleth turtle in Heaven’s May.
Though I tarry wait for Me, trust Me, watch and pray:
Arise, come away, night is past and lo it is day,
My love, My sister, My spouse, thou shalt hear Me say.
Then I answered: Yea.
About.com:Quotations has a service to send a daily poem by email called “Classic Poem Daily”
http://quotations.about.com
Music
Folk Music (taken from article from about.com:folkmusic)
“Scarborough Fair" (purchase/download), popularized in America by Simon and Garfunkel, is an English folk song about a trade fair that took place in the resort town of Scarborough during the medieval times. The fair peaked in the late 14th century, but continued to operate until the end of the 1700s.
"Scarborough Fair" Lyrics
The lyrics for "Scarborough Fair" talk about unrequited love. A young man requests impossible tasks from his lover, saying that if she can perform them, he will take her back. In return, she requests impossible things of him, saying she will perform her tasks when he performs his.
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
The use of the herbs "parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme," has been debated and discussed. Herbalists will tell you of the many symbolisms and functions of herbs in healing and health maintenance. There's also a possibility that these meanings were intended as the song evolved (parsley to remove bitterness, sage to cleanse, thyme for courage, rosemary for love). There's some speculation that these four herbs were used in a tonic of some sort, to remove curses.
Simon and Garfunkel's Version
“Paul Simon learned the song in 1965 while visiting Martin Carthy in London. Art Garfunkel adapted the arrangement, integrating elements of another song Paul Simon had written called "The Side of a Hill," and the pair added some anti-war lyrics. They recorded the song and didn't give credit to the traditional arrangement and lyrics.”
Useful resource for songwriting
http://musiced.about.com/od/songwriting101/Songwriting_101.htm
For more information on Crystal Healing or Herbalism, see http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ Theatre, Music, Yoga, Poetry, www.caraemoore.co.uk
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